‘Careless People’ – How a New Zealand Lawyer Exposed Facebook’s Darkest Secrets John Bowie, LawFuel publisher Kiwi lawyer Sarah Wynn-Williams is very much in the red chair at present – sitting in the hot seat with a book about the increasingly hot-button issues involving the new nerdyverse in which we now live seemingly run by […]
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Open Letter Demands Firms Stand Up Against Trump’s “Attack on Rule of Law” Associates at America’s big law firms are taking matters into their own hands. While their high-powered bosses remain conspicuously silent, these young legal eagles are circulating an anonymous open letter demanding that law firm leadership speak out against what they describe as
The Two BigLaw $7 Billion Club Members Latham & Watkins is having a moment. The firm reported a whopping $7 billion in gross revenue for 2024, marking a 23 percent increase from the previous year and entering the $7 billion club with Kirkland & Ellis entering that magic rhealm in 2023 (coming in at $7.21
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Trump’s Icy Law Firm Crackdown Ben Thomson, Lawfuel contributing editor Any law firm representing someone Donald Trump doesn’t like might cost your firm its government contracts in the US, after the administration launched a ferocious, two-pronged assault on major law firms through executive orders that should make every attorney pay attention – regardless of political
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Perkins Coie v. Trump Fight Tom Borman Reacting to the Trump administration executive order removing their security clearances, Perkins Coie has enlisted the help of Williams & Connolly to challenge the order. This strategic partnership demonstrates the seriousness with which Perkins Coie is approaching the case, as they seek to leverage Williams & Connolly’s expertise
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Trump Targets BigLaw Over DEI President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed squarely at the top 50 big law firms in the U.S., focusing on their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. The move was revealed in an executive order signed by Trump on 6 March and targeting Perkins Coie for its work
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Let’s cut through the corporate jargon: Hogan Lovells isn’t just “growing” – it’s latest results show the firm is scaling with surgical precision having just posted a $2.965B revenue haul for 2024, a near 9 percent jump that brings it within spitting distance of the elusive $3B mark.
The news was dropped by the firm in their March 6 release that we have here.
For context, that’s up 23 percent from 2023’s $2.7B. More telling? PEP hit $3.07M (up 12 percent while RPL nudged to $1.097M.
The ABA – “We Won’t Let Courts or Lawyers Become Political Pawns” John Bowie, LawFuel Publisher Three weeks after issuing its clarion call to protect judicial independence, the American Bar Association is doubling down with a blistering critique of escalating government attacks on the third branch – and the lawyers who keep it running. ,
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Alex Spiro, the go-to litigator for Elon Musk and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, now bills clients $3,000 per hour—a figure cementing his status among Manhattan’s most expensive lawyers. Or in fact any US lawyers.
At Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Spiro and global co-managing partner William Burck lead a pricing tier that reflects the fast-growing climb of premium legal services across the US, with firm partners charging between $1,860 and $3,000 hourly.
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KPMG has broken new ground in the US legal market with the Arizona Supreme Court approving KPMG Law US to practice as an alternative business structure, marking the first time a Big Four accounting firm can legally practice law in the United States.
The approval comes under Arizona’s reformed regulations. Enacted in 2020, these changes allow non-lawyers to have economic interests in law firms. KPMG was quick to seize this opportunity.
The question is . . .
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